After the initial announcement of the Biden administration's loan forgiveness program, lawsuits are currently blocking the potential funding for millions of college students. Many remain concerned with the blocks consequences and what this will mean for the future of their loans.
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"But the fee increase might produce more positive outcomes than anticipated, even down to helping diversify the undergraduate business program student body. While the cost increase will put some students in difficult financial positions and possibly deter concerned applicants, it could also open up the opportunity for more low-income candidates to attend the school."
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The Board of Trustees on Thursday voted to pass an amendment to the university naming policy and recognized the success of both Campaign for Carolina and the Tar Heel Bus Tour.
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UNC tuition for out-of state undergraduate students will increase by five percent beginning next fall, the UNC Board of Trustees’ Budget, Finance and Infrastructure Committee decided on Wednesday.
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The UNC Faculty Executive Committee spoke on the importance of faculty mental health and gave updates on the UNC System's return-on-investment study. The committee also discussed authority for University hiring approvals at their Monday meeting.
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The UNC School of Law and the Gillings School of Global Public Health will soon have new areas for students and faculty and the roof of the Administrative Office Building will also be replaced. The UNC Board of Trustees’ Budget, Finance and Infrastructure Committee recently approved stages for each capital project.
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This fall, Kenan-Flagler Business School has seen a discrimination lawsuit filed by a former doctoral student, as well as the co-leads of the school’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Initiative leaving their positions. Douglas Shackelford, who had been serving as dean of the school since 2014, unexpectedly retired in September. In terms of diversity, Kenan-Flagler is 61st out of 81 ranked U.S. business schools, according to Bloomberg's 2022-2023 Diversity Index.
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During their meeting on Friday, the UNC Board of Trustees reviewed committee reports and addressed campus safety issues. The BOT also discussed bylaw revisions and heard reports from trustees and the student body president concerning ongoing committee programs.
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The festival was held in the Pit Thursday morning. Departments such as the Chapel Hill Police and Orange County Emergency Medical Services gave demonstrations on how to prepare for and react to a range of emergency situations, including the zombie apocalypse.
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The University has been using Social Sentinel, an AI-based service, since 2016 to identify threatening or concerning public social media posts. The contract will end in October. Documents show that UNC used Social Sentinel to monitor campus protests through geofencing and pulled data from public posts on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Youtube and Reddit.
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As the University community settles into the fall 2022 semester, the UNC Faculty Executive Committee gave updates on campus efforts toward mental health, the removal of The Daily Tar Heel’s recent op-ed and changes to the position of chairperson of the faculty.
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The University announced Friday that it will install a permanent memorial in The Pit dedicated to James Cates. This memorial announcement comes after years of community initiatives and activism to honor Cates and bring attention to racially-motivated violence. The Cates memorial will be part of 'Build our Community Together,' one of the eight initiatives of the 'Carolina Next: Innovations for Public Good' plan to increase diversity and inclusion, the University said. The James Cates Remembrance Coalition also proposed renaming the Student Stores building after Cates in June 2021.
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This year in the committee's May 5 meeting, Chairperson Mike Smith said that the committee's goal was to get its report draft to Guskiewicz by July 1 so that he would have time to review it before the BOT meeting in late July, where it would be considered. However, the committee still has not finalized its report.
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UNC announced updated COVID-19 policies for the fall 2022 semester in a campus-wide email Friday. The University will not have any testing requirements for asymptomatic individuals on campus and will no longer provide voluntary asymptomatic testing. Students who test positive for COVID and are living in residence halls can isolate at home or in their residence hall room. The University is not requiring vaccine attestation or re-entry testing, but both are encouraged.
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In its May 19 meeting, he UNC Board of Trustees heard presentations on the importance of undergraduate research and discussed the new IDEAs in Action curriculum that will begin in the fall.
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On Thursday, the Chancellor’s Committee to Review History Commission Resolution met to discuss its report for Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz on building name removals, which it hopes to complete by July 1. The committee discussed the removal of the campus building names Bingham Hall, Grimes Residence Hall and Graham Residence Hall.
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Student Body President Lamar Richards made his final remarks as an ex-oficio member of the UNC Board of Trustees at the full board meeting on March 24. The BOT also heard a presentation from the North Carolina Policy Collaboratory and the newly-formed UNC Winston National Center on Technology Use, Brain and Psychological Development.
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The UNC Board of Trustees' Budget, Finance and Infrastructure Committee discussed the University's first all funds budget, which will be reviewed by the Board of Governors on May 25.
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On March 7, the Faculty Executive Committee met to discuss possible ways to improve communication with the Board of Trustees, what UNC could look like as mask-optional and continued discussions on UNC's relationship with race.
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Last Thursday, the Chancellor’s Committee to Review History Commission Resolution reviewed and revised a committee report to evaluate the criteria for renaming several buildings on campus.
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